On this episode of The Community Exchange Podcast, we welcome Marc Guldimann, Co-founder and CEO at Adelaide.

In our discussion, MSG and Marc discuss:

— Marc’s path from decision science and wireless startups into adtech entrepreneurship
— How years of experimentation shaped his thinking on attention and media measurement
— Why attention matters in advertising — and where it can go wrong
— The idea behind AU and measuring media quality, not just impressions
— How broken metrics created bad incentives across digital advertising
— How broken incentives, “lemon markets,” and cost-plus buying have pushed digital advertising into a race to the bottom
— Why publishers, agencies, DSPs, and SSPs all need a better common language for quality
— How AI may hurt low-quality content but strengthen quality publishing
— Moving from impressions and viewability toward a more durable media wide currency

And more.

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Guest

Marc Guldimann

Founder & CEO, Adelaide

Marc Guldimann is the founder and CEO of Adelaide, the industry leader in attention-based media quality measurement. Adelaide puts evidence-based measurement into practice using AU, an omnichannel metric proven to measure media quality more accurately than existing verification metrics. Before creating Adelaide, Marc founded Parsec, the first marketplace to sell media based on time spent. He also served as the founding CEO of Enliken and Spongecell. Prior to his career in digital media, Marc worked in the wireless network security industry, where he developed the first virus filter for wireless networks. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, Marc holds a degree in Social Decision Sciences.

Host

Matthew Scott Goldstein (MSG)

Independent Analyst / Advisor / Consultant